![]() ![]() Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. In Lucia's Eyes by Arthur Japin About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Adolescent I repeat, it admitted of all sorts of deviations if it had not been so firm and fundamental I might have been afraid of deviating.” Everything that happened was simply "a temporary deviation." "Why not enjoy oneself?" That's what was amiss with my idea. ![]() And "my idea"? My "idea" later, the idea would wait. "What do I care if I'm fallen! And i won't fall, I'll get out of it! I have a lucky star!" I was crossing a precipice on a thin plank without a rail, and I was pleased at my position, and even peeped into the abyss. And yet, for those two months I was almost happy - why, almost? I was quite happy! And so happy - would it be believed - that the consciousness of my degradation, of which I had glimpses at moments (frequent moments!) and which made me shudder in my inmost soul, only intoxicated me more. Even in the whirl in which I was caught up, and though I was alone without a guide or counsellor, I was, I swear, conscious of my downfall, and so there's no excuse for me. “I speak as a judge and I know that I was guilty. ![]()
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